I’ve been warning my own people.
I cover the Carolina’s. The road is dangerous enough as it is. I beg of people to not be on the Interstates and byways traveling at speed during this time.
Pick a place and just stay there. I should not have to explain why. It is dangerous enough without space events.
Bring your lunch to work and stay off the roads with all the rubber neckers.
I was once on the SE Expressway in Boston during a lunar eclipse (a rather common occurrence). Cars slowing down, people pulling over and getting out of the car, etc. It was a nightmare.
Eclipses bore me other than the one where Einstein was proven right. Light bends in a gravity well and all the resulting relativity stuff. Beyond that.... Pfffft. BFD. Get some blackout curtains.
https://www.space.com/37018-solar-eclipse-proved-einstein-relativity-right.html
Here in my town in Maryland, the sun will be covered to the tune of about 83 percent at around 2:40 pm.
I made an effort as a college studemt to see the total eclipse of March 1970 visible from Nantucket. Unfortunately, we were a mile or so back in the line to get on the last ferry, so we enjoyed the company of a large number of other disappointees observing a 99% eclipse on an outpost of Cape Cod.
Just not the same as a total. Not in the same category. That's why I have my fingers crossed for the weather this time around!
Click on your location to find your blackout coverage. Map is about 1/3 down on the page.
http://www.eclipsewise.com/solar/SEnews/TSE2017/TSE2017gmap/TSE2017gmapIL.html
Im not worried about congestion since I’ll be flying my lear jet during the eclipse.
We get 83% of an eclipse without leaving Morgantown. That’s good enough for government work.
I am in the Salem Oregon area. Hotels started kicking out people with reservations so they could raise the rates. population here is 175,000 and they expect 125,000 more. Told to stock up on food and gasoline. Take a jar to pee in if you are going anywhere. Park to be filled with tents and RVs. I’m going to watch from the backyard with my approved eclipse glasses.
I booked a hotel in Murfreesboro (TN) a year ago in anticipation of this; got a good rate. Now, there doesn’t seem to be much availability.
My plan is to head from there towards Sparta which is near the mid-line. Hoping the roads aren’t too crazy, but I’ll already be in the path, just trying to maximize it.
As an aside, I’m also looking for a retirement area on this trip in TN, KY, WV - probably around the Smokies. Any mid-size communities (30-150k) a Freeper would reccommend?
Even if it’s raining, it’ll be dark.
Spooky.
Many States Preparing For Historic Eclipse Like A Natural Disaster
Standard butt-covering, or is there anything else at issue that the public oughta know about...?